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I have collected lot of code samples and few files from this news group
as well as MVP's sites. Many a times I have modifies the code to suit my requirements. I do not have a single book or never attended any classes to learn excel or VBA. I have learnt a great deal from this NG as well as googling the net about excel and VBA. My friends are now many times consulting me for their problems in excel or vba (Although I still consideer my self as novice or at the most intermidiate level). They insist me to put my small collection on web for referance by them. Since most of the code is from this NG and individual MVP's sites, I fill it necessary to ask you if I can do that. I have put some files on net (with free web hosting services offered by Tripod) URL is http://xlvba1.tripod.com/ Since I am not aware of the cyber laws, I request you, in case if you feel that anything is wrong, pl let me know and I will remove the same from site. Regards, |
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IMHO
If I publish code to this or any News Group, then it is in the public domain and thus you are free to use it however you want. Having said that, it would be a courtesy to acknowledge the source of any code that you put on a web site if it isn't your own, especially if it is useful enough to publish anyway. thanks for asking Patrick Molloy Microsoft Excel MVP "spareus" wrote: I have collected lot of code samples and few files from this news group as well as MVP's sites. Many a times I have modifies the code to suit my requirements. I do not have a single book or never attended any classes to learn excel or VBA. I have learnt a great deal from this NG as well as googling the net about excel and VBA. My friends are now many times consulting me for their problems in excel or vba (Although I still consideer my self as novice or at the most intermidiate level). They insist me to put my small collection on web for referance by them. Since most of the code is from this NG and individual MVP's sites, I fill it necessary to ask you if I can do that. I have put some files on net (with free web hosting services offered by Tripod) URL is http://xlvba1.tripod.com/ Since I am not aware of the cyber laws, I request you, in case if you feel that anything is wrong, pl let me know and I will remove the same from site. Regards, |
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Hi
Speaking for myself, I see code posted in a newsgroup as public property. However, credits to the author is the right thing to do, likewise an apology where you lost the author's name. So yes, you can use anything I wrote without further permission. I believe this is the general view, but wait for some more replies. Code from websites, on the other hand, is personal property, you are not allowed to redistribute that. HTH. Best wishes Harald "spareus" skrev i melding oups.com... I have collected lot of code samples and few files from this news group as well as MVP's sites. Many a times I have modifies the code to suit my requirements. I do not have a single book or never attended any classes to learn excel or VBA. I have learnt a great deal from this NG as well as googling the net about excel and VBA. My friends are now many times consulting me for their problems in excel or vba (Although I still consideer my self as novice or at the most intermidiate level). They insist me to put my small collection on web for referance by them. Since most of the code is from this NG and individual MVP's sites, I fill it necessary to ask you if I can do that. I have put some files on net (with free web hosting services offered by Tripod) URL is http://xlvba1.tripod.com/ Since I am not aware of the cyber laws, I request you, in case if you feel that anything is wrong, pl let me know and I will remove the same from site. Regards, |
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Quite honestly, it is very difficult to know who actually thought of
something in many cases, as the original idea may be buried in the mists of time, or have been developed/enhanced/improved by many people. Speaking personally, anything I publish usually consists of adaptations of techniques I have picked up over the years, or have developed as my skills improve. Acknowledging everyone involved would be impossible, or pointless. Anything I publish is effectively given at that point, unless I include a notice to the contrary (very rare), and so anyone is free to do with it as they will. As Harald says, if you have a specific technique or solution that you know was first presented by person A, credit them, or better still link to their website if they have one. -- HTH Bob Phillips "spareus" wrote in message oups.com... I have collected lot of code samples and few files from this news group as well as MVP's sites. Many a times I have modifies the code to suit my requirements. I do not have a single book or never attended any classes to learn excel or VBA. I have learnt a great deal from this NG as well as googling the net about excel and VBA. My friends are now many times consulting me for their problems in excel or vba (Although I still consideer my self as novice or at the most intermidiate level). They insist me to put my small collection on web for referance by them. Since most of the code is from this NG and individual MVP's sites, I fill it necessary to ask you if I can do that. I have put some files on net (with free web hosting services offered by Tripod) URL is http://xlvba1.tripod.com/ Since I am not aware of the cyber laws, I request you, in case if you feel that anything is wrong, pl let me know and I will remove the same from site. Regards, |
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Well,
Thanks to all of you for your reply. Actually when I started pickingup the code from NG or various sites, I only intended to keep it to myself as a referance (Mostly I save the page by Save as in IE) so that I do not have to search the NG or wab again for the same. So in most cases I do not know the actual URL from where I saved it. But I have informed the visitors for the same by putting it in BIG BOLD RED fonts. I also put the links to MVP's sites on my links page. I think it should suffice but still it is always better to ask experts. Any comments/sugessions are always welcome. Regards, Bob Phillips wrote: Quite honestly, it is very difficult to know who actually thought of something in many cases, as the original idea may be buried in the mists of time, or have been developed/enhanced/improved by many people. Speaking personally, anything I publish usually consists of adaptations of techniques I have picked up over the years, or have developed as my skills improve. Acknowledging everyone involved would be impossible, or pointless. Anything I publish is effectively given at that point, unless I include a notice to the contrary (very rare), and so anyone is free to do with it as they will. As Harald says, if you have a specific technique or solution that you know was first presented by person A, credit them, or better still link to their website if they have one. -- HTH Bob Phillips "spareus" wrote in message oups.com... I have collected lot of code samples and few files from this news group as well as MVP's sites. Many a times I have modifies the code to suit my requirements. I do not have a single book or never attended any classes to learn excel or VBA. I have learnt a great deal from this NG as well as googling the net about excel and VBA. My friends are now many times consulting me for their problems in excel or vba (Although I still consideer my self as novice or at the most intermidiate level). They insist me to put my small collection on web for referance by them. Since most of the code is from this NG and individual MVP's sites, I fill it necessary to ask you if I can do that. I have put some files on net (with free web hosting services offered by Tripod) URL is http://xlvba1.tripod.com/ Since I am not aware of the cyber laws, I request you, in case if you feel that anything is wrong, pl let me know and I will remove the same from site. Regards, |
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Sorry,
I forgot to include the text by which I informed the visitors of the fact about owners/work by other. It is as given below. PLEASE NOTE THAT MANY OF THESE FILES ARE NOT MINE. THESE FILES ARE COLLECTED FROM THE WAB AND MIGHT BE MODIFIED BY ME. BUT THE CODE ARE WRITTEN BY OTHER AUTHORS OR HAVE BEEN COPIED FROM THE NEWSGROUPS AND MODIFIED TO SUIT MY REQUIREMENTS. Regards, |
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For the files that you downloaded and copied to your site I think you have a (serious) issue. (regardless of any disclaimers) e.g. Stephen Bullen's Resizeable form (although i think you renamed it from the original at http://www.bmsltd.ie/Excel/Default.htm) WHY not create a link to the original website? you dont have any (legal) issues. users get the 'latest' copies. users get a chance to see other stuff as well Also most (wise) people will not be able to open your XLS files directly without losing the code. Much better to ZIP your xls files. -- keepITcool | www.XLsupport.com | keepITcool chello nl | amsterdam spareus wrote : Sorry, I forgot to include the text by which I informed the visitors of the fact about owners/work by other. It is as given below. PLEASE NOTE THAT MANY OF THESE FILES ARE NOT MINE. THESE FILES ARE COLLECTED FROM THE WAB AND MIGHT BE MODIFIED BY ME. BUT THE CODE ARE WRITTEN BY OTHER AUTHORS OR HAVE BEEN COPIED FROM THE NEWSGROUPS AND MODIFIED TO SUIT MY REQUIREMENTS. Regards, |
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As seems to be the consensus, anything you create based on answers in the
newsgroups is fine for you to post on your set. However, the same can not be said for anything you read or download from a web site. Instead of copying the items to your site, you should show a simple description of the code/utility and provide a link to the author's site, where the details can be viewed and the file can be downloaded. To that end, please remove from your site all the files you downloaded from my site (www.oaltd.co.uk or www.bmsltd.ie) and replace them with descriptions and links. Thanks Stephen Bullen "spareus" wrote: I have collected lot of code samples and few files from this news group as well as MVP's sites. Many a times I have modifies the code to suit my requirements. I do not have a single book or never attended any classes to learn excel or VBA. I have learnt a great deal from this NG as well as googling the net about excel and VBA. My friends are now many times consulting me for their problems in excel or vba (Although I still consideer my self as novice or at the most intermidiate level). They insist me to put my small collection on web for referance by them. Since most of the code is from this NG and individual MVP's sites, I fill it necessary to ask you if I can do that. I have put some files on net (with free web hosting services offered by Tripod) URL is http://xlvba1.tripod.com/ Since I am not aware of the cyber laws, I request you, in case if you feel that anything is wrong, pl let me know and I will remove the same from site. Regards, |
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First, I'm not a lawyer.
But I recently saw a post from someone who stated that his comments were copyrighted and could not be used except for the Usenet and for google. So if you copied code from that person, you may want to be careful (either check with him or avoid it or just search google and use a link to that google archive). I think if you post the code, you may want to post a link to google archive, too. It might make finding the context much easier. (But it will be lots more work for you!) spareus wrote: I have collected lot of code samples and few files from this news group as well as MVP's sites. Many a times I have modifies the code to suit my requirements. I do not have a single book or never attended any classes to learn excel or VBA. I have learnt a great deal from this NG as well as googling the net about excel and VBA. My friends are now many times consulting me for their problems in excel or vba (Although I still consideer my self as novice or at the most intermidiate level). They insist me to put my small collection on web for referance by them. Since most of the code is from this NG and individual MVP's sites, I fill it necessary to ask you if I can do that. I have put some files on net (with free web hosting services offered by Tripod) URL is http://xlvba1.tripod.com/ Since I am not aware of the cyber laws, I request you, in case if you feel that anything is wrong, pl let me know and I will remove the same from site. Regards, -- Dave Peterson |
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Here's a link to that post.
http://tinyurl.com/94dnv Dave Peterson wrote: First, I'm not a lawyer. But I recently saw a post from someone who stated that his comments were copyrighted and could not be used except for the Usenet and for google. So if you copied code from that person, you may want to be careful (either check with him or avoid it or just search google and use a link to that google archive). I think if you post the code, you may want to post a link to google archive, too. It might make finding the context much easier. (But it will be lots more work for you!) spareus wrote: I have collected lot of code samples and few files from this news group as well as MVP's sites. Many a times I have modifies the code to suit my requirements. I do not have a single book or never attended any classes to learn excel or VBA. I have learnt a great deal from this NG as well as googling the net about excel and VBA. My friends are now many times consulting me for their problems in excel or vba (Although I still consideer my self as novice or at the most intermidiate level). They insist me to put my small collection on web for referance by them. Since most of the code is from this NG and individual MVP's sites, I fill it necessary to ask you if I can do that. I have put some files on net (with free web hosting services offered by Tripod) URL is http://xlvba1.tripod.com/ Since I am not aware of the cyber laws, I request you, in case if you feel that anything is wrong, pl let me know and I will remove the same from site. Regards, -- Dave Peterson -- Dave Peterson |
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" strictly prohibited and may result in legal action "
Yeah, right. So every time this guy answers a newsgroup post, he files with the copyright office? That would be a pretty expensive hobby. I don't doubt that he owns the copyright to what he posts, but if he doesn't file, good luck trying to enforce it. And that's assuming he's in the US. If he's in a different country than the web forum he's suing, well, I doubt they'll be too worried. -- Dick Kusleika Excel MVP Daily Dose of Excel www.dicks-blog.com Dave Peterson wrote: Here's a link to that post. http://tinyurl.com/94dnv Dave Peterson wrote: First, I'm not a lawyer. But I recently saw a post from someone who stated that his comments were copyrighted and could not be used except for the Usenet and for google. So if you copied code from that person, you may want to be careful (either check with him or avoid it or just search google and use a link to that google archive). I think if you post the code, you may want to post a link to google archive, too. It might make finding the context much easier. (But it will be lots more work for you!) spareus wrote: I have collected lot of code samples and few files from this news group as well as MVP's sites. Many a times I have modifies the code to suit my requirements. I do not have a single book or never attended any classes to learn excel or VBA. I have learnt a great deal from this NG as well as googling the net about excel and VBA. My friends are now many times consulting me for their problems in excel or vba (Although I still consideer my self as novice or at the most intermidiate level). They insist me to put my small collection on web for referance by them. Since most of the code is from this NG and individual MVP's sites, I fill it necessary to ask you if I can do that. I have put some files on net (with free web hosting services offered by Tripod) URL is http://xlvba1.tripod.com/ Since I am not aware of the cyber laws, I request you, in case if you feel that anything is wrong, pl let me know and I will remove the same from site. Regards, -- Dave Peterson |
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He doesn't need to file with the copyright office to enforce an
injunction. He, in theory, could seek compensatory damages without filing with the copyright office, but it's hard to see what he could claim as damage. It would need to be filed if he wants punitive damages. I'd give the guy the benefit of the doubt that he put that message there to make sure that his posts stay freely distributable (i.e., that a "third party web forum" doesn't try to charge for it or otherwise restrict access). It's probably a bit misguided, but if he's allowing nntp, Google and Microsoft to publish it, he's not trying to restrict access very much... In article , "Dick Kusleika" wrote: Yeah, right. So every time this guy answers a newsgroup post, he files with the copyright office? That would be a pretty expensive hobby. I don't doubt that he owns the copyright to what he posts, but if he doesn't file, good luck trying to enforce it. And that's assuming he's in the US. If he's in a different country than the web forum he's suing, well, I doubt they'll be too worried. |
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Roedd <<Dick Kusleika wedi ysgrifennu:
" strictly prohibited and may result in legal action " Yeah, right. So every time this guy answers a newsgroup post, he files with the copyright office? That would be a pretty expensive hobby. I don't doubt that he owns the copyright to what he posts, but if he doesn't file, good luck trying to enforce it. And that's assuming he's in the US. If he's in a different country than the web forum he's suing, well, I doubt they'll be too worried. Hi Dick. Actually, it's not meant to be that serious. It's just a comment on the fact that something (usenet) that has been traditionally been free (in both the 'free speech' and 'free beer' senses) has started to be privatised by web forums. This all started for me when a web site called CyclingForums in the UK started gulping up the whole of uk.rec.cycling and presenting it for all the world as one of its own creations including the inevitable cheesy ad banners etc. I seriously object to the contributions I freely make to many online communities being co-opted without my permission like this for monetary gain by a third party. A similar issue exists with the likes of officekb.com here. Nothing much I can do about it, of course, except put meaningless (and, frankly, idle) threats in my sig. -- Rob http://www.asta51.dsl.pipex.com/webcam/ This message is copyright Robert Bruce and intended for distribution only via NNTP. Dissemination via third party Web forums with the exception of Google Groups and Microsoft Communities is strictly prohibited and may result in legal action. |
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JE McGimpsey wrote:
He doesn't need to file with the copyright office to enforce an injunction. He, in theory, could seek compensatory damages without filing with the copyright office, but it's hard to see what he could claim as damage. It would need to be filed if he wants punitive damages. I haven't looked for a long time, but I think the law is more along the lines that you can't get compensatory damages for periods prior to the time that the infringer had notice of the existence of the copyright (and a filing with the copyright office is deemed to be one form of notice); and I wouldn't expect that filing with the copyright office would be required for punitive damages, though the infringer's knowledge of the existence of the copyright would certainly be one of the requirements for punitive damages. Alan Beban |
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Actually, my use of punitive damages is a misnomer in any case - rather
than punitive damages, the copyright act allows for increases in statutory damages above a minimum due to "willful infringements". So an infringer is liable for compensatory damages (i.e., actual damages plus any profits of the infringer) if the copyright has not been registered, or actual damages plus a sliding scale of statutory damages, depending on the degree of "willfulness", if the work is registered. IIRC, statutory damages run from a few hundred to a few hundred thousand dollars. There's even more flexibility, IIRC - the copyright owner has three months to register, so if the infringement happens within that three months, the infringer may still be liable for statutory damages. Several jurisdictions have, relatively recently, allowed punitive damages as well. In addition, the Digital Millenium Copyright Act allows for statutory damages for infringement prior to registration (i.e., you can register after the infringement occurs and still collect). Further, the law also allows for seizure of the infringing work. If that work is on a server farm (say a "web forum"), one could in theory seize the farm after getting an injunction. All that said, in the case of newsgroup posts, there'd be no point in going to court, other than to harass an infringer. Aside from the lack of actual damages, an infringer would likely have a defense of "fair use" for anything less than a full-blown application. In article , Alan Beban wrote: I haven't looked for a long time, but I think the law is more along the lines that you can't get compensatory damages for periods prior to the time that the infringer had notice of the existence of the copyright (and a filing with the copyright office is deemed to be one form of notice); and I wouldn't expect that filing with the copyright office would be required for punitive damages, though the infringer's knowledge of the existence of the copyright would certainly be one of the requirements for punitive damages. |
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Spareus,
I'm glad you like it, but as Stephen says, I'd appreciate you removing my progress bar from your site although you are more than welcome to place a pointer to the original on my site he http://www.enhanceddatasystems.com/E...rogressBar.htm I notice that you have added your own demo to the file. I just had a look at the blurb I put in the class module in this file which reads: 'PROGRESS BAR CLASS 'REQUIRES INCLUSION OF frmProgress Form 'COPYRIGHT of the AUTHOR: ROBIN HAMMOND 'UPDATED: 16 September 2003 'PURPOSE: Provides a modeless user form showing progress bar, title and three 'captions in Excel 2000 or higher. Now handles Excel 97 by using same methods 'with progress messages written to the statusbar 'LEGAL: No commercial use or sale of this code or derivative works is permitted 'under any circumstances without the express permission of the author. 'The author is likely to say yes if you ask nicely though. 'You may redistribute this workbook in its original form only, as 'first received from the Enhanced Datasystems website. 'For further information, please visit www.enhanceddatasystems.com 'The colour shading technique on the progress bar was done by 'Jamie Collins in response to a newsgroup challenge. Thanks Jamie. Other than my punctuation being a bit off (and a lawyer being able to drive a bus through the language) I think that probably sums up the general approach of most of the community here. For example, I use Stephen's PastePicture routine with his explicit permission, and provide a link on my site to his routine on this page: http://www.enhanceddatasystems.com/E...sImageList.htm Anyway, good luck with the site, and if you see anything I post in the group that you find useful, feel free to use it. Robin Hammond www.enhanceddatasystems.com "Stephen Bullen" wrote in message ... As seems to be the consensus, anything you create based on answers in the newsgroups is fine for you to post on your set. However, the same can not be said for anything you read or download from a web site. Instead of copying the items to your site, you should show a simple description of the code/utility and provide a link to the author's site, where the details can be viewed and the file can be downloaded. To that end, please remove from your site all the files you downloaded from my site (www.oaltd.co.uk or www.bmsltd.ie) and replace them with descriptions and links. Thanks Stephen Bullen "spareus" wrote: I have collected lot of code samples and few files from this news group as well as MVP's sites. Many a times I have modifies the code to suit my requirements. I do not have a single book or never attended any classes to learn excel or VBA. I have learnt a great deal from this NG as well as googling the net about excel and VBA. My friends are now many times consulting me for their problems in excel or vba (Although I still consideer my self as novice or at the most intermidiate level). They insist me to put my small collection on web for referance by them. Since most of the code is from this NG and individual MVP's sites, I fill it necessary to ask you if I can do that. I have put some files on net (with free web hosting services offered by Tripod) URL is http://xlvba1.tripod.com/ Since I am not aware of the cyber laws, I request you, in case if you feel that anything is wrong, pl let me know and I will remove the same from site. Regards, |
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Hi Robert,
I seriously object to the contributions I freely make to many online communities being co-opted without my permission like this for monetary gain by a third party. Interesting and fair comments. Seems that Google-groups has gone the way of your friends at CyclingForums, and also use your old contributions as a source to derive an income stream from advertisers. To my dismay, the UK version has just gone the way of its parent. Regards, Peter T "Robert Bruce" <rob@analytical-dynamicsdotcodotukay wrote in message ... Roedd <<Dick Kusleika wedi ysgrifennu: " strictly prohibited and may result in legal action " Yeah, right. So every time this guy answers a newsgroup post, he files with the copyright office? That would be a pretty expensive hobby. I don't doubt that he owns the copyright to what he posts, but if he doesn't file, good luck trying to enforce it. And that's assuming he's in the US. If he's in a different country than the web forum he's suing, well, I doubt they'll be too worried. Hi Dick. Actually, it's not meant to be that serious. It's just a comment on the fact that something (usenet) that has been traditionally been free (in both the 'free speech' and 'free beer' senses) has started to be privatised by web forums. This all started for me when a web site called CyclingForums in the UK started gulping up the whole of uk.rec.cycling and presenting it for all the world as one of its own creations including the inevitable cheesy ad banners etc. I seriously object to the contributions I freely make to many online communities being co-opted without my permission like this for monetary gain by a third party. A similar issue exists with the likes of officekb.com here. Nothing much I can do about it, of course, except put meaningless (and, frankly, idle) threats in my sig. -- Rob http://www.asta51.dsl.pipex.com/webcam/ This message is copyright Robert Bruce and intended for distribution only via NNTP. Dissemination via third party Web forums with the exception of Google Groups and Microsoft Communities is strictly prohibited and may result in legal action. |
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So far it looks like you have no content of your own, even the links page which would be
the easiest for you to create are lines ripped off from http://www.mvps.org/links.html pasted directly into Front Page from a Front Page page. That's why the links look exactly alike. International copyright laws are pretty much the same throughout most of the world, Hosting sites do not permit you to break the law; otherwise, they themselves would be held accountable, but they would certainly shut you down if they examined your site or received a complaint and then looked at your site.. http://info.lycos.com/legal/legal.asp#Infringement HTH, David McRitchie, Microsoft MVP - Excel [site changed Nov. 2001] My Excel Pages: http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel/excel.htm Search Page: http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel/search.htm "Stephen Bullen" wrote in message ... As seems to be the consensus, anything you create based on answers in the newsgroups is fine for you to post on your set. However, the same can not be said for anything you read or download from a web site. Instead of copying the items to your site, you should show a simple description of the code/utility and provide a link to the author's site, where the details can be viewed and the file can be downloaded. To that end, please remove from your site all the files you downloaded from my site (www.oaltd.co.uk or www.bmsltd.ie) and replace them with descriptions and links. Thanks Stephen Bullen "spareus" wrote: I have collected lot of code samples and few files from this news group as well as MVP's sites. Many a times I have modifies the code to suit my requirements. I do not have a single book or never attended any classes to learn excel or VBA. I have learnt a great deal from this NG as well as googling the net about excel and VBA. My friends are now many times consulting me for their problems in excel or vba (Although I still consideer my self as novice or at the most intermidiate level). They insist me to put my small collection on web for referance by them. Since most of the code is from this NG and individual MVP's sites, I fill it necessary to ask you if I can do that. I have put some files on net (with free web hosting services offered by Tripod) URL is http://xlvba1.tripod.com/ Since I am not aware of the cyber laws, I request you, in case if you feel that anything is wrong, pl let me know and I will remove the same from site. Regards, |
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Sorry,
I could not reply due to weekend. I have noted all the comments/reply. As noted rightly by David McRitchie, I have no content of my own. This is surly a collection only. What I have done is to modify the code to my requirement or some twesting just to understand how it works. I can not have my contents. Thats just imposible for that to happen, I must be an expert like you MVPs which is almost impossible. I am not a programmer. I am a simple office user. When I first saw google NG, I was facinated by what can be acheived and it just looks like magic. This has greatly reduced my pain of collecting the data, summarise it, preparing various reports, and automating most of my reports leaving me free to learn more and more. As suggested by many of you, I should remove the files and put discriptions and link to original files, it will be huge time consuming job. (due to fact that I have to find out the link which may or may not be possible. Pl give me some time. I will put links and discription as suggested wherever I find it. If I could not trace the original link, I will surely remove the file itself. Once that is done, I think I will be out of all such copyright problems. Thank you very for your valuable comments and response. I will still approach you for any of my problems with a hope that you will still help me out. Regards, David McRitchie wrote: So far it looks like you have no content of your own, even the links page which would be the easiest for you to create are lines ripped off from http://www.mvps.org/links.html pasted directly into Front Page from a Front Page page. That's why the links look exactly alike. International copyright laws are pretty much the same throughout most of the world, Hosting sites do not permit you to break the law; otherwise, they themselves would be held accountable, but they would certainly shut you down if they examined your site or received a complaint and then looked at your site.. http://info.lycos.com/legal/legal.asp#Infringement HTH, David McRitchie, Microsoft MVP - Excel [site changed Nov. 2001] My Excel Pages: http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel/excel.htm Search Page: http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel/search.htm "Stephen Bullen" wrote in message ... As seems to be the consensus, anything you create based on answers in the newsgroups is fine for you to post on your set. However, the same can not be said for anything you read or download from a web site. Instead of copying the items to your site, you should show a simple description of the code/utility and provide a link to the author's site, where the details can be viewed and the file can be downloaded. To that end, please remove from your site all the files you downloaded from my site (www.oaltd.co.uk or www.bmsltd.ie) and replace them with descriptions and links. Thanks Stephen Bullen "spareus" wrote: I have collected lot of code samples and few files from this news group as well as MVP's sites. Many a times I have modifies the code to suit my requirements. I do not have a single book or never attended any classes to learn excel or VBA. I have learnt a great deal from this NG as well as googling the net about excel and VBA. My friends are now many times consulting me for their problems in excel or vba (Although I still consideer my self as novice or at the most intermidiate level). They insist me to put my small collection on web for referance by them. Since most of the code is from this NG and individual MVP's sites, I fill it necessary to ask you if I can do that. I have put some files on net (with free web hosting services offered by Tripod) URL is http://xlvba1.tripod.com/ Since I am not aware of the cyber laws, I request you, in case if you feel that anything is wrong, pl let me know and I will remove the same from site. Regards, |
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Robert Bruce wrote:
Hi Dick. Actually, it's not meant to be that serious. It's just a comment on the fact that something (usenet) that has been traditionally been free (in both the 'free speech' and 'free beer' senses) has started to be privatised by web forums. This all started for me when a web site called CyclingForums in the UK started gulping up the whole of uk.rec.cycling and presenting it for all the world as one of its own creations including the inevitable cheesy ad banners etc. I seriously object to the contributions I freely make to many online communities being co-opted without my permission like this for monetary gain by a third party. A similar issue exists with the likes of officekb.com here. Nothing much I can do about it, of course, except put meaningless (and, frankly, idle) threats in my sig. I definitely didn't read it that way until JE pointed it out. In that light, I like it. To me, it says "I know I can't do anything about it, I just want you scumbags to know that I know that you are scumbags." -- Dick Kusleika Excel MVP Daily Dose of Excel www.dicks-blog.com |
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Wow, I didn't even know you could tap dance and it turns out your an expert
<g -- Regards, Tom Ogilvy "Dick Kusleika" wrote in message ... Robert Bruce wrote: Hi Dick. Actually, it's not meant to be that serious. It's just a comment on the fact that something (usenet) that has been traditionally been free (in both the 'free speech' and 'free beer' senses) has started to be privatised by web forums. This all started for me when a web site called CyclingForums in the UK started gulping up the whole of uk.rec.cycling and presenting it for all the world as one of its own creations including the inevitable cheesy ad banners etc. I seriously object to the contributions I freely make to many online communities being co-opted without my permission like this for monetary gain by a third party. A similar issue exists with the likes of officekb.com here. Nothing much I can do about it, of course, except put meaningless (and, frankly, idle) threats in my sig. I definitely didn't read it that way until JE pointed it out. In that light, I like it. To me, it says "I know I can't do anything about it, I just want you scumbags to know that I know that you are scumbags." -- Dick Kusleika Excel MVP Daily Dose of Excel www.dicks-blog.com |
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Spareus,
Just as I was clearing out all the threads that I have watches on, I wondered whether you had actually followed up on all the group members' requests to remove their content from your site. It looks to me like nothing has changed. Since you posted your question as to whether it was OK, and we all asked so politely to have our content removed or relinked to its original location on our own sites, I'm surprised to see that it's still there six weeks on. Perhaps you could do something about this, or if you are too busy, even take your page down until you have time. Thanks, Robin Hammond www.enhanceddatasystems.com |
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